Olive Oils on our San Francisco Tours

Last time I was in Paris, I intentionally tried to taste wines that I could not get back home. On our San Francisco Tours, we try to taste foods that you can only get here. It's not that other areas don't have great foods, but why have foods that you can get back home. On our North Beach\Little Italy (on of our San Francisco Food Tours), we taste a variety of olive oils. The olive oils that we taste on our San Francisco Tours are all local California olive oils.  By trying different olive oils, I believe you'll learn how to find good olive oils back home. 

On our San Francisco Food Tours, we emphasize local foods because if you want to have local foods, you need to support local producers. Fresh olive oil tastes wonderful. If I was in Italy, I would be trying Italian olive oils. Since, we are in San Francisco, we taste local olive oil from here. One reason we have some many local olive oils is that we are a big wine-growing region. Olive trees love the same climate as vineyards. 

As you'll find on our San Francisco Tours, olive oil tasting is a great deal like tasting wine. In other words, what do you like. By trying different olive oils , you'll find that some you will like, some you will not. Also, you'll start to see that different olive oils go with different foods, just like wines. 

There is another reason to try local olive oils. On San Francisco Food Tours, we make a point to include local merchants who support family farms and who support local agriculture. That way, we know the each of vendors on our San Francisco Tours is helping to ensure that the farmers growing the food are making enough income to take care of their families and communities.

Just as important, we know that the foods on our San Francisco Food Tours, are hormone-free, antibiotic-free, and healthy. Whether it is olive oil or bread or whatever, anything that goes into the food goes into you. If the olive trees which produce the olive oil are grown in an area that lots of pesticides, those pesticides are probably going into you. By knowing where our olive oil is coming from, we know what is in the food. Otherwise, you have to trust a multi-national company to look out for your best interests. You can decide whether you want to do that. Personally, I would rather not.